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lobstman · Post by **lobstman** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:02 am

I dropped in to see an acquaintance yesterday who is kinda like the Fred Sanford of pro audio. He was clapping his hands and grinning, and I knew he'd just made a major score. He'd just bought out a video production house and showed me piles of equipment including cameras, an Avid system, six (!) Wheatstone audio consoles ranging from six inputs to 20, racks of processing gear, patchbays, and boxes full of who knows what. The real prizes though were three Otari tape decks- an MX80 2" (24 track), and a pair of MTR10s- one 1/2", one 1/4". I didn't do more than look at the decks, but they seemed to have had little use.

He paid $2500 for all of it.

Bad economy=good deals.

aitikin · Post by **aitikin** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:50 am

As I recently told Mark Rubel about one of his purchases (albeit much lessor than this one), I hate [him]...

joel hamilton · Post by **joel hamilton** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 11:24 am

aitikin wrote:As I recently told Mark Rubel about one of his purchases (albeit much lessor than this one), I hate [him]...

If I didnt know better, I would think Mark voted for Reagan so he could have a recession just to be able to buy pultecs for 50 dollars....

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:58 pm

joel hamilton wrote:
aitikin wrote:As I recently told Mark Rubel about one of his purchases (albeit much lessor than this one), I hate [him]...
If I didnt know better, I would think Mark voted for Reagan so he could have a recession just to be able to buy pultecs for 50 dollars....

Mark Rubel the evil genious!

trodden · Post by **trodden** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:35 pm

I always wonder how people "find" these deals..

like, their hanging out at the bar.. "so yeah, this video production company is going under.. wanna go in on buying a shit ton of gear?"

i must be hanging out at the wrong bars.. cause all i can find is cocaine and trouble for sale.

however, the other day at the bus stop, i heard a lady next to me tell her friend... "last night, i read on the cat fancy web board...." then the bus pulled up and it was too loud to hear what she found out on the cat fancy bulletin board.

ulriggribbons · Post by **ulriggribbons** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:40 pm

I'm sure it was something catty...

??????? · Post by **???????** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:53 pm

trodden wrote:I always wonder how people "find" these deals..

like, their hanging out at the bar.. "so yeah, this video production company is going under.. wanna go in on buying a shit ton of gear?"

i must be hanging out at the wrong bars.. cause all i can find is cocaine and trouble for sale.

however, the other day at the bus stop, i heard a lady next to me tell her friend... "last night, i read on the cat fancy web board...." then the bus pulled up and it was too loud to hear what she found out on the cat fancy bulletin board.

junk stores, pawn shops, and government auctions are a good place to start.

scott macdonald · Post by **scott macdonald** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:34 am

I totally scored Pultec for 50 bucks from some sucker on the Cat Fancy bulletin board.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:28 am

I scored a pultec from som fancy cat on the tape op board.

I think I am gonna start looking around here for some places going under. Gotta be something better to do with my lie savings than wait for it to disapear.

lobstman · Post by **lobstman** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:16 am

trodden wrote:I always wonder how people "find" these deals..

In this guy's case, he's been the go-to guy around here for this sort of thing for 25 years. Earlier the same week he liquidated a nightclub, he's got an EV KF750 rig from another one parked in a truck out back. I told you, he's the rock & roll Fred Sanford!

And speaking of Cat Fancy, I had to bring a cat into the Vet ER a couple years ago. I'll read anything, so I picked up Cat Fancy in the waiting room. It had an article by Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull (about cats, not Pultecs).

FlowersForHuman · Post by **FlowersForHuman** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:03 am

lol

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:50 am

Why is it that these days all the places I know of that are going under are run by dudes who think that they're going to get five times market value for all their broken shit?

(Not that I haven't gotten some great deals in the past.)

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:57 am

I have definetly experienced that! Or the ones that wnat 10% less than new retail!
How about compusa when they were liquidated. Their "deals" weren't any better than neweggs regular prices!
Except maybe on the macs. Wish I could have bought a mac tower, they had one for $1200.

Wilkesin · Post by **Wilkesin** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:16 am

calaverasgrandes wrote:my lie savings

You've got one of those too! I thought I was the only one!

trodden wrote:I always wonder how people "find" these deals..
like, their hanging out at the bar.. "so yeah, this video production company is going under.. wanna go in on buying a shit ton of gear?"
I must be hanging out at the wrong bars.. cause all i can find is cocaine and trouble for sale.
however, the other day at the bus stop, i heard a lady next to me tell her friend... "last night, i read on the cat fancy web board...." then the bus pulled up and it was too loud to hear what she found out on the cat fancy bulletin board.

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